Cosmetic corneal inlay and implantation method thereof
AssigneeOphta Innovations Inc.
InventorFrancesco Maria GUERRESCHI
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Abstract
Disclosed is an intrastromal insert, already preformed, of solid, transparent, impermeable, biocompatible, physiologically inert and chemically resistant material, with notches allowing the passage of metabolites, substances, cells or portions thereof, and drugs, configured to receive printing, which is adapted in the space of the corneal stroma to change the eye color and/or to solve the problem of insufficient pigmentation of the iris. The method and the related component to change, permanently and reversibly, the eye color for aesthetic purposes are described as well.
Claims20
An intrastromal corneal insert (2) constituted by a film of solid, transparent, impermeable, biocompatible, physiologically inert and chemically resistant material, having thickness between 4.5 and 50 μm, designed to receive printing, wherein the intrastromal corneal insert has a shape of an annulus of variable dimensions as a function of the dimensions of the cornea and of the pupillometry detected in mesopic conditions in the subject who has to receive the insert, and being the profile of the central hole, or inner perimeter, of the annulus a multilobed line, wherein each lobe has the shape of an arc of circumference and the lobes are two by two symmetric and opposing, and the annulus having four holes (14) respectively positioned at 2, 4, 8, and 10 o'clock, having a plurality of chromatic patterns thereon reproducing the chromatic pattern of the iris or of any other pattern according to the receiver's aesthetic taste.
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